After get off work, Chen Muwu went to the Dabei Telegraph Office on Aidoya Road and sent a telegram to Eddington.
The price of one word was one and a half cents, which made his heart ache.
But I had to spend the money because my second paper was still sent to the editorial office of the Journal of Philosophy.
Chen Muwu didn’t know why the first paper was rejected. If it was really because the editor discriminated against Chinese people, then the second paper would also not be published.
So he had no choice but to send this telegram to Eddington. First, he thanked him for his help in publishing his first paper, and second, he informed him that his second paper on the theory of relativity had been sent to "Philosophy" Magazine Editorial Department.
Chen Muwu did not dare to make a request directly, so he asked Eddington to make another trip to the editorial office to withdraw the paper from the Journal of Philosophy and submit it to Proceedings of the Natural Science.
Because although Einstein was the matchmaker, he and Eddington were not familiar with each other after all, and this was even the first time they communicated with each other. Eddington was Chen Muwu’s senior in physics, so he rashly called him It is neither appropriate nor polite for an old-timer to run around here and there.
We can only hope that Eddington can understand the voice of the words in his telegram, and don't let his dozens of dollars go to waste.
Eddington never thought that this young man from the Far East named Chen Muwu would send him a telegram.
In the story he imagined, it was his good friend Einstein who, while lecturing in the Far East, discovered a physics genius in the slums described in newspapers and selflessly helped and supported him.
Of course, this young genius lived up to expectations. His first paper caused a bloody storm in the physics community in Europe and America.
Eddington just finished reading February's "Annals of Physics" yesterday. Many of the papers above focused on the question of whether light is a wave or a particle. The intensity can be said to be a fight between gods.
Botter of Humboldt University in Berlin, Compton of the University of Chicago,...all qualified university laboratories have published their own experimental data and results, and these results are all the same as those of the Cavendish Laboratory. , exactly as predicted by Chen Muwu in his paper.
Debye of ETH Zurich even wrote a paper to strongly support Chen Muwu's theory.
My old friend Einstein’s vision is indeed good!
Of course, there are also many opposing voices, such as a communication just sent by the Royal Society today to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, from Bohr, the newly-minted Nobel Prize winner in physics at the University of Copenhagen.
In his correspondence, he harshly criticized the absurdity of the photon theory proposed by Einstein and Chen Muwu. If light were particles, it would inevitably destroy the electromagnetic system created by Maxwell. Then he raised this to a philosophical level and said some things that were unclear.
Eddington had long been dissatisfied with Bohr because of his speech at the Nobel Prize ceremony.
Now in this communication, I saw him making irresponsible remarks about Einstein's theory again, and Eddington curled his lips in contempt.
If he is familiar with Tang poetry, then the sentence "If your body and name are broken, you will not waste the eternal flow of rivers".
Eddington liked to challenge authority. During the First World War, he refused the British government's request for military service. He had the blood of an angry youth flowing in his bones.
Otherwise, he would not be the first to jump out and support the correctness of the theory of relativity in a big way.
Because he listened to Lord Kelvin's lectures several times when he was young, and he entered the Cavendish Laboratory to study thermal radiation after graduation, the law of physics that Eddington most admired was the second law of thermodynamics.
He once said this: "I believe that the principle of entropy increase, the second law of thermodynamics, is the supreme law of all nature.
“If someone points out that your theory of the universe does not agree with Maxwell’s equations, then there may be something wrong with Maxwell’s equations;
“If you have a theory of the universe that contradicts observations, well, the people doing the observations sometimes get things wrong;
"But if your theory violates the second law of thermodynamics, I dare say you have no hope. Your theory will only be disgraced and collapse."
So Eddington didn't care at all whether, as Bohr said, if light were really a particle, it would break Maxwell's equations, as long as it didn't break the second law of thermodynamics.
Eddington was shocked when he received the telegram form from the postman.
This telegraph fee, which was worth several pounds, he had to carefully consider before sending it himself. How could this young man named Chen be so generous?
But seeing the contents of the telegram made Eddington very excited.
The relativity genius who was highly praised by Einstein finally sent his relativity paper!
Just seeing the name "Journal of Philosophy" again made Eddington vaguely unhappy.
He still clearly remembered how embarrassed he was by the arrogant editor the last time he went to the London editorial office to inquire about the situation.
Well, now, I missed a paper that caused a sensation in the academic world, and I don’t know whose loss it was!
Eddington thought for a while and decided to make another trip to London.
Since this young man sent himself a telegram, it shows that he trusts him very much. What's more, it is an excellent article on the theory of relativity, so he can't let Mingzhu secretly submit it.
The next day, Eddington came to the editorial office of the "Journal of Philosophy" again.
Enemies meet on a narrow road, and the editor who received him this time was the same editor who looked at people through his nostrils last time.
Even though he missed a phenomenal paper, he showed no signs of repentance and still looked carefree.
When he learned that Eddington was looking for the Chinese's paper again, he even said in a weird voice: "Fellow Eddington, we have received the Chinese's paper again. Out of respect, we specially invited relevant experts this time." Experts review the manuscript.
"It's a pity that he may have just had a sudden inspiration and wrote the first paper. Now this one has been exposed, and experts commented that the content of the paper makes no sense.
"If you want this paper, look for it on the shelf labeled 'Monkey'.
"I really don't know why you have to come to our editorial office again and again for a Chinese. Could it be that this Chinese monkey is the illegitimate child you left behind after you went to Chinatown to have a good time when you were young and ignorant? Huh? Hahaha... Ouch!"
No matter how gentle a person is and how gentlemanly he behaves, he cannot stand such ridicule and ridicule.
What's more, Eddington is not a very gentle person.
He smashed the editor's glasses with a punch, then took out a white five-pound note and threw it on the editor's face: "I'll give you five pounds to have your eyes checked. You'd better take the rest of the money." Look at the brain!”
After that, Eddington, furious, strode out of the office of the "Journal of Philosophy".
